Well, I'm honored, Dave ;) I think I mentioned a while back an old phone of mine that would autocorrect Jason to Jarmo for some reason. I've looked all over the web and all I could find with that name was an archaeological site in Iraq.
@Doug: "Nice" overshoots the mark! But we have a space, and we are the only ones in the building with access, and I do my best to make something happen in it -- hop vine, some bulb flowers, a couple of bushes. An eternal quest for actual grass coverage.
@Handy a little suet cage, some trumpet vines in the hopes that a hummingbird will come by one day. There's a church next door where we've gotten almost every local raptor you can think of
Rockin' and washing.. but my name's not Sue. Hello No Brows!
1:25pm
egould310:
@Handy put out some bird feeders. You’ll definitely start getting all sorts of birds, including exotics. Plus you’ll start to get birds all the way up the food chain. Hawks are awesome.
Oh, I had my revenge -- pulled my boxers ALLLLLLLLL the way up and tucked my T-shirt into them when we reached the squats portion of the torture. Good luck doing curls while laughing too hard to see, Kate!
1:43pm
David in London:
There’s a good Laughton / Mitchum story that involves the latter putting his todger in a hot dog bun.
I learned only in the last few years that in the 50s or early 60s, my grandfather and a couple of friends briefly owned a night club in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and on opening night they dressed in grass-skirt drag and lip-synced to a track from Mitchum's calypso album. There's a brief glimpse of it on some of the family Super-8 archive, but alas no sound.
David: That's been a long-term plan of mine for a while. There's 10 hours of footage, covering 1958-1980, with some great footage of Honduras and New Orleans (plus a bit of NYC, DC, and some other parts of the US). It's just screaming for a period-appropriate soundtrack. I personally love the 70s footage most of all, when everyone was dressed like extras in Boogie Nights ;)
Pedro- No reverb as of now...waiting for a major grant from the NEA...
2:03pm
P-90:
Big thumbs up for the Hi Fidelities!
2:04pm
David in London:
Mariano, wow, that’s quite a treasure trove. It’s the kind of project that might take some effort, but once completed you’d never ever be sorry that you’d invested in it. Agreed on the 70s clobber, it was just a glorious time for people looking cool and utterly ridiculous simultaneously.
Rex do you know Bobby Lounge? Closes out Jazz Fest every second Sunday in NOLA. Gets wheeled on stage in an iron lung, accompanied by aloof nurses. You...would dig.
David: the absolute highlight is my late great-uncle Tony in a loud Qiana shirt and beige polyester trousers dancing the bump with my muumuu-clad grandmother.
2:11pm
Don F.:
listener - "Hey Wolfman - what radio do you listen to?"
wolfman - "Zenith"
JJJ: Oh, I bet there's some classic cringe material in those books. Used to have a set of the 1911 Britannica and some of the articles in there, particularly on African and West Indian countries... wow. A must-read for anyone who thinks the racism of the past has been exaggerated.
Great show, having a blast down in Ciudad de Panama, Panama!!
2:40pm
OKI DOG:
St. George, on the northeast tip of Staten Island, is the most densely populated neighborhood in the borough and traces its history back to the time of the founding fathers.
This Afternoon
Mostly sunny, with a high near 56. Breezy, with a west wind around 23 mph.
Tonight
Mostly clear, with a low around 41. West wind 6 to 11 mph becoming light and variable after midnight.